‘The Last Manager’ Review: An Edge on the Diamond
Temperamentally an old-school manager, Earl Weaver was also a baseball pioneer who embraced analytics and technology.
Fond memories of Orioles baseball | READER COMMENTARY
Wally chain-smoked cigarettes while we parsed Orioles Manager Earl Weaver’s strategy, usually concluding with an ...
The Baltimore Banner3d
Jim Palmer read the new Earl Weaver biography. He loved it, and he quite likes Weaver, too.
Palmer clashed with his former manager repeatedly during his playing career, but the two developed respect that turned into ...
The Baltimore Sun25d
Earl Weaver biography ‘The Last Manager’ details life of former Orioles skipper
When Earl Weaver died in January 2013, John W. Miller was covering the steel industry for the Wall Street Journal. But someone on the sports desk knew Miller was a baseball nut — a former ...
Tony talks baseball with author John W. Miller
Tony Ryma speaks with John W. Miller, author of The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball ...
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The Gamblers and Hustlers That Made Baseball’s Greatest Manager
When the Black Sox Scandal erupted after eight members of the Chicago White Sox were banned for throwing the 1919 World Series, big league baseball vowed to crack down on gambling once and for all ...
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Pittsburgh biographer tells the story of baseball maverick Earl Weaver
Earl Weaver argues with an umpire, a common sight in the 1970s at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore. “The Last Manager,” John Miller’s new biography of baseball Hall of Famer Earl Weaver ...